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After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera

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  • Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses have proven more successful than other entrants into the market, but they have also disturbed certain consumers who see them as invasive emblems of a dystopian surveillance society run amok.
  • TechCrunch reached out to Meta for more information.

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Meta’s Reality Labs is still losing a gargantuan amount of money, as its earnings report from April said.

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  • The headline puts “‘perv glasses,’” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

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Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses have proven more successful than other entrants into the market, but they have also disturbed certain consumers who see them as invasive emblems of a dystopian surveillance society run amok.

The Information reports that Meta is developing a new smart glasses model, dubbed Luna, that, sans cameras, comes equipped with a system to communicate with the company’s AI chatbot and Muse, its AI consumer agent.

TechCrunch reached out to Meta for more information.

Meta’s Reality Labs is still losing a gargantuan amount of money, as its earnings report from April said.

Shortened to 1 minute of reading, this version reads 9.2 on the Niral Score.

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  • TechCrunch After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera plain
  • Engadget Meta is reportedly gearing up to launch new smart glasses without a camera plain

How each outlet filed it

Outlet Niral ScoreAdjectivesSourcingSentimentHappiness
TechCrunchas they published this story 14.8 10 39 0.0 52.6
Engadget 13.7 7 0 -0.1 54.5
Mundane Readneutralized from TechCrunch 10.4 9 39 0.0 52.6

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